David
Hung-Chang Du

Dr. Du is currently the Qwest Chair Professor
of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He
is the Center Director of the NSF multi-university I/UCRC Center of Research in
Intelligent Storage (CRIS). In additional to NSF, CRIS is currently sponsored
with 11 companies with 15 sponsored memberships. He was a Program Director
(IPA) at National Science Foundation CISE/CNS Division from March 2006 to
August 2008. At NSF, he was responsible for NeTS
(Networking Research cluster) NOSS (Networks of Sensor Systems) Program and
worked with two other colleagues, Karl Levitt and Ralph Wachter,
on Cyber Trust (Internet Security) Program. In 2008 he was also assigned to CSR
(Computer System Research) Cluster for handling research in computer systems. Dr.
Du receives a B.S degree in Mathematics from NationalTsing-HuaUniversity
(Taiwan) in 1974 and an M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from University of Washington (Seattle)
in 1980 and 1981 respectively. He joined University of Minnesota as a faculty
since 1981. Dr. Du also has been a visiting professor in Germany, Korea,
Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Research Expertise: Dr. Du’s current research focuses on intelligent storage
systems, multimedia computing, sensor networks and cyber physical systems. He
has had research in high-speed networking, database design, and CAD for VLSI
circuits. He has authored and co-authored over 250 technical papers including
110 referred journal publications in these research areas.He has graduated 54 Ph.D. and 100+ M.S.
students in the last 30 years. His research in intelligent storage systems focus
on new storage technologies/architectures, that can handle semantic data and
adaptive to long-term data preservation, and efficient power management for
data centers. His research in multimedia computing includes video-on-demand
server architecture, video and audio synchronization techniques, and efficient
large scale video streaming over Internet.His research in sensor networks and cyber physical systems focuses on
vehicle-to-vehicle communications, future intelligent transportation systems,
next generation air-transportation systems and security and privacy issues for
cyber physical systems. His research in CAD includes physical layout, timing
verification and delay fault testing for high-speed and very large scale circuits.His research in high-speed networking
includes heterogeneous high-performance computing over high-speed networks,
quality of service, parallel data archive for high-performance computing, and optical
networks.

Professional Activities and Awards: Dr. Du is an IEEE
Fellow (since 1998) and a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute. He
is currently a member of Advisory Committee to Institute of Information Science
and Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academic Sinica in Taiwan and a member of International Advisory Board
to Korean Journal of Computer Science and Engineering.He was an Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Computers from 1993 to 1998.He was
the US WEST Chair Professor at the University
of Minnesota from 1994 to
2000. He is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of several international
journals including IEEE Transactions on Vehicle Technology. He has also served
as Conference Chair and Program Committee Chair for several conferences in multimedia,
networking security and database areas. Most recently, he is the General Chair
for IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium (Oakland, California) 2009, Program
Committee Co-Chair for International Conference on Parallel Processing 2009,
and Workshop Co-Chair and the General Chair for IEEE International Conference
on Distributed Computing Systems 2010 and 2011 respectively. General, Co-Chair of ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks
and Systems 2013 and General Chair of International Conference on Parallel Processing
(ICPP) 2014. He also serves as the Chair of Steering Committee for ICPP.

He has had research grants from the National
Science Foundation, DARPA, ONR, DOE and companies like 3M, Northern Telecom,
Unisys, IBM, Seagate Technology, US WEST, Honeywell, Sun Micro, Intel, Cisco
and etc.

Industrial Experiences: Dr. Du has
served as a consultant to a number of companies in the past, including:
Honeywell, NCR, Unisys, 3M and IXMICRO. In 1996, he spent 6 months in the Computer
Communications Lab (CCL) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
in Taiwan.
His major function at CCL/ITRI was to plan several long term (5-year) R&D
projects funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. He has served as a member
of Technical Advisory Committee for CCL/ITRI in the last few years. In 1998, he
joined IXMICRO as the Vice President of Research and Development for one year.
He led a team of 30+ engineers to develop products such as ATM network
interface cards, ATM switches, Fast Ethernet switches, wireless mice, ADSL modems,
and streaming video servers. He has
co-founded a startup company called Streaming21 that was recently acquired by Foxconn and also helped to establish another startup
company called Baynacre with his former students. Baynacre was
later acquired by Apache Design Solutions. He has served as Chairman and CEO
for Streaming21 in 2000 and 2001. During this period, he helped to raise $18M
funds from VCs for Streaming21 and managed 60+ employees. Streaming21 was
focused on developing streaming video products for carrier and entertainment
markets. Baynacre
was focused on static timing analysis software tools for nano-technology.